Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

cannot hold a large amount. Better far let them
have three meals than two for this reason. You let
them have a large amount of food at one meal. The
foundation is being laid for distention of the
stomach, which results in dyspepsia.
To eat and to drink that which is not agreeable
to them is not wisdom. And again, be sure and set
before them the very food you desire they shall eat.
That which is of a healthful quality of food for
them is healthful for you. But the quantity of even
healthful food should be carefully studied, so as not
to introduce into the stomach too large a quantity at
one meal. We must ourselves be temperate in all
things, if we would give the proper lessons to our
children. When they are older any inconsideration
on your part is marked.—Letter 12, 1884.
Establish No One Rule
No eating should be allowed between our
meals. I have eaten two meals each day for the last
twenty-five years. I do not use butter myself, but
some of my workers who sit at my table eat butter.
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